Anyone ever hear of Raich or Stewart?

[beerslurpy]

I just idly ask because SCOTUS granted cert like 4 months ago for both those cases. Raich revolves around intrastate cultivation and consumption of marijuana and stewart revolves around homemade machine guns for personal use. The justices sounded like they were considering partly overturning Wickard v Fillburn during oral arguments for Raich.

Stewart will hear arguments after Raich is decided, probably sometime in April or May.

The fact that Stewart has been put off till after Raich leads me to beleive that the justices want to get a nice left wing (drugs!) federalism win to cover up the machine gun decriminalization shortly thereafter.

Kinda puts things into perspective, no?

 

[Beren]

a nice left wing (drugs!) federalism win to cover up the machine gun decriminalization shortly thereafter.

Left wing? Huh. I vote Republican, and I don't think the federal government has any business regulating intrastate drug consumption or trade either.

But yes, if you do a forum search, you'll find multiple threads on Stewart and Raich.

 

[publius]

Stewart will hear arguments after Raich is decided, probably sometime in April or May.

Where did you get that info? Last I heard, they had a conference on the cert petition, but I have not heard anything after that. That could mean that they will not hear the case at all, or that they will do as the Justice Department has asked and let Raich govern Stewart, or that they will hear the case argued before announcing a Raich decision.